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Poll: Is your phone mostly a work tool, or a distraction from your work? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Thomas Pfann United Kingdom Local time: 18:41 Member (2006) English to German + ...
My phone is for receiving emails and accessing the internet when I am out of the house. When I am at my desk working, the phone is mostly quiet. Luckily, I hardly get any work-related calls (probably no more than five per year). If the phone rings at all, it is usually a nuisance call about that car accident I wasn't involved in recently. | | |
Gitte Hoveds (X) Denmark Local time: 19:41 Danish to English + ...
My phone is irrelevant to my work life. | | |
I rarely get phone calls. I encourage people to e-mail me because I'm hearing-impaired. This last week I only received 2 phone calls on my land line, both from clients, and I couldn't hear either one, even with my fancy phone and hearing aids. I received no calls on my cell. People ask me: "How do you manage to do all that you do?" and I tell them it's because I don't talk on the phone. | |
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Ricki Farn Germany Local time: 19:41 English to German
My phone is a thing that can make acoustic phone calls. Per week, I get at most five of those, and when they would be a distraction, I don't answer them. I think this question refers to a smartphone. I don't have a smartphone because I feel it would be way too fragile for my big paws. Maybe I should go Japanese and get a smartphone on a lanyard, so at least I wouldn't be able to drop it. But just checking emails on my PC once in a while does the same job without making me feel that ... See more My phone is a thing that can make acoustic phone calls. Per week, I get at most five of those, and when they would be a distraction, I don't answer them. I think this question refers to a smartphone. I don't have a smartphone because I feel it would be way too fragile for my big paws. Maybe I should go Japanese and get a smartphone on a lanyard, so at least I wouldn't be able to drop it. But just checking emails on my PC once in a while does the same job without making me feel that I'm wearing an ankle monitor. ▲ Collapse | | |
Beata Baika Romania Local time: 20:41 German to Hungarian + ...
I don't take jobs through phone. I use my smartphone only to check emails. | | |
I haven’t had a phone call from a client for ages. For a while, I was frequently annoyed by unwelcome telesales calls until I told them over and over again that I wasn’t interested and someone finally listened! | | |
my phone is a phone. it is used for receiving or making calls. those related to work are non a distractions, the others sometimes are. It is used for checking emails, also for games and music when I want... AT the end of the day, it is not a work tool and it is not a distraction. It is a personal phone, a work tool, a distraction, something I forget I have... | |
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Ricki Farn Germany Local time: 19:41 English to German Philosophical | Jan 23, 2018 |
Gianluca Marras wrote: my phone is a phone. | | |
Mario Chavez (X) Local time: 13:41 English to Spanish + ... Nuisance calls | Jan 23, 2018 |
Thomas Pfann wrote: My phone is for receiving emails and accessing the internet when I am out of the house. When I am at my desk working, the phone is mostly quiet. Luckily, I hardly get any work-related calls (probably no more than five per year). If the phone rings at all, it is usually a nuisance call about that car accident I wasn't involved in recently. I'm curious, Thomas: in America we'd identify those phantom car accident calls as coming from unscrupulous lawyers, whom we call ambulance chasers. What do you call them over there? | | |
Mario Chavez (X) Local time: 13:41 English to Spanish + ... Smartphones vs. telephones | Jan 23, 2018 |
I don't know about Android-powered smartphones, but I can block unwelcome or nuisance calls on my iPhone. My iPhone is also my alarm clock and my soothing sleeping music generator (I use an iTunes playlist for that). | | |
Ricki Farn wrote: Gianluca Marras wrote: my phone is a phone. oops!!!!! | |
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I am still more comfortable with my landline, but I don't get a lot of calls. I do have a smartphone, but mostly it is sound asleep in my handbag, and I only use it now and then, e.g. when I'm running late for an appointment. For work-related communication on the road I use a mini iPad. | | |
Joohee Kim South Korea Local time: 02:41 Member (2017) English to Korean + ...
I can't live without my phone. Yes, I am a smartphone zombie... | | |
Vanda Nissen Australia Local time: 03:41 Member (2008) English to Russian + ...
I do telephone interpreting, individual clients also call me on my mobile and I do check my emails, however I am not addicted to it because I prefer getting distracted on my laptop:). My smartphone's screen (although one of the largest) is not big enough for that. | | |
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